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Noam Chomsky, 95, ‘no longer able to talk’ as intellectual’s ‘health deteriorates’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Will be forever beholden to his work on language and grammar. Made it bearable to sit through a pointless CompSci class.
I thought his language theories were disproven?
This is shocking to hear. I'm also extremely spooked that no experts have even attempted to dispute these claims. Was he really just some pseudo-academic celebrity? Is he merely the OG Jordan Peterson?
I think there is also something structural about academia, at least culturally, that supports the kind of monolithic views of how things work, even when they've never been shown to be demonstrated by the evidence. Linguistics is far from the only field where I've seen this scenario play out.